crayon (version 1.3.2)

col_nchar: Count number of characters in an ANSI colored string

Description

This is a color-aware counterpart of base::nchar, which does not do well, since it also counts the ANSI control characters.

Usage

col_nchar(x, ...)

Arguments

x
Character vector, potentially ANSO styled, or a vector to be coarced to character.
...
Additional arguments, passed on to base::nchar after removing ANSI escape sequences.

Value

Numeric vector, the length of the strings in the character vector.

See Also

Other ANSI string operations: col_strsplit, col_substring, col_substr

Examples

Run this code
str <- paste(
  red("red"),
  "default",
  green("green")
)

cat(str, "\n")
nchar(str)
col_nchar(str)
nchar(strip_style(str))

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